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leana:) asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 1 decade ago

Anyone Know About Ancient Israel?? =P?

How did Judaism grow in the period following the Jews' exile?

and

Why did the Romans destroy the temple and exile the Jews?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    1. Romans first. They're a much easier question.

    The Romans destroyed the temple and exiled the Jews because the Jews had been rebelling in an attempt to get religious and political freedom.

    (The Romans had been imposing harsh taxes, appointing high priests to the Jewish temple based on who had political pull, etc., etc. The temple was destroyed during the 1st Jewish revolt, and the Jews were exiled from Jerusalem but not Israel as a whole. The Jews were exiled (mostly, some remained for centuries) from Israel following the 3rd Jewish revolt.

    2. How did Judaism grow during the exile? Much longer question. (It goes from the year 70 until either 1948 or until the present, depending on who you ask.)

    Right. After the destruction of the Temple, a politically savvy Rabbi named Yochanan ben Zakki convinced the Roman General (I think it was Vespasian) to allow an academy to be opened in the city of Yanveh. Here, ben Zakki and various other Rabbis began debating and discussing the Oral Law (according to Jewish tradition, this was given at Mt. Sinai with the Bible, or written law). This marked the beginning of Judaism as a religion centered around learning, and not around the temple (the temple having been destroyed).

    The oral law, as well as the debates of these Rabbis, was collected by Rabbi Yehudah Hanassi (Judah the Prince, he was a descendant of King David) into a book called the Mishnah.

    After the Jews were exiled by the Romans, the major Jewish community of the time, living in modern day Iraq, wrote the Babylonian Talmud. This work extrapolates upon the Mishnah, and is a central Jewish work.

    Meanwhile, those Rabbis who managed to remain in Israel wrote the Jerusalem Talmud (usually translated as the Palestinian Talmud) which served a similar role as its Babylonian counterpart. However, because of the relative lack of Jews in Israel (by now renamed Palestine by the Romans) this book was not finished and never had the same following as the Babylonian Talmud.

    The Babylonian Talmud was finished in about 500.

    Meanwhile... well, I think you only meant the period relatively near the exile, which would just be the Mishnah. If not, I could go on for a while...

  • 1 decade ago

    The Jews returned from Babylonian exile to find Jerusalem in ruins. They began to grow again and decided to rebuild the temple, but there was significant resistance from the Jews who had remained in the area and intermarried with the gentiles. These were known as Samaritans, and their fights with the Jews continued through Jesus' time (his parable about the Good Samaritan was to show that everyone is our brother).

    The Romans destroyed the temple after Jesus' ministry due to a Jewish revolt. With Jerusalem again in ruins, the Jews were scattered.

    Hope this helps.

  • 1 decade ago

    First thing you need to know is. The Jews in the land are not the true Israelites. Judaism is not what the Ancient Israelites practiced. They were simply told to keep the laws of the Father. Moses did not tell the Israelites to convert to Judaism. He gave them the law. Just like the messiah was not a christian nor did he practice Judaism. Those are simply man made religions.

    The real Israelites were scattered to the 4 corners of the earth and were sent into captivity, for the disobedience to the Law. You have to first find real Israel. Ancient Israel were people of color. The link below will give you all the knowledge you need.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    i'm no expert, yet they possibly knew the thank you to count variety and had some style of mathematics. Any civilization might somewhat set up some device of counting, for taxes, livestock, etc. i does not take a number of those different posters that heavily. at the same time as algebra is arabic, is it against the regulation to earnings it? i do no longer understand of any Jew who claims that algebra grew to become into invented by historic Israelites. and likewise, for "Dan Dan", ever heard of the Tanakh/previous testomony? That counts, does not it? And it easily originates from historic Israelites.

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  • 1 decade ago

    yeah...crash course in Jewish history ...

    http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_C...

  • 1 decade ago

    to subjects like these........book is your best friend!!

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